road map

noun

1

: a map showing roads especially for automobile travel

2

a

: a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal

b

: a detailed explanation

Synonyms of road map

• plan
• strategy
• blueprint
• program
• project
• scheme
• game plan

Examples of road map in a Sentence

Did you bring a road map?

a road map to peace

Recent Examples on the Web

While looking to Latin America can provide one path, Cubiñá cautioned against relying too much on that being the road map. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Paying Down Data Debt Without Halting AI The mistake most organizations make is treating data debt paydown as a two-year infrastructure project that stalls the AI road map. — Gopichand Mannava, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

As a product and vision advisor at Subsense, Kurzweil will provide perspective on the company’s technology road map and on how the convergence of AI and neural interfaces will reshape human-computer interactions, the company said. — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

This road map gives Hohenbruck the benefits of innovation without letting a promising experiment become a costly distraction. — Harvard Business Review, 3 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road map

• bandgap
• bitmap
• blackcap
• blackstrap
• bootstrap
• burlap
• claptrap
• entrap
• foolscap
• kidnap
• kneecap
• madcap